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There is a famous story of 40 Hazara girls in Uruzgan committing suicide to escape sex slavery during the persecution. [24] 9,000 Hazara women were enslaved in Kabul alone. [4] 30 mule loads; [25] or roughly over 400 decapitated Hazara heads [N 2] were allegedly sent to Kabul. The Sultan Ahmad Hazara tribe of Uruzgan was in particular severely ...
Significant communities of Hazara people also live in Quetta, Pakistan and in Mashad, Iran, as part of the Hazara and Afghan diasporas. Map of Kabul Province and its surroundings showing the boundaries of the different Hazara tribes in 1893. Between 1888-1893, nearly 60% of the Hazaras were massacred and their land seized by the Pashtuns.
Persecution of Hazara people: Afghanistan-Pakistan: heads of state of Afghanistan, Taliban, Haqqani network, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, ISIL, Pashtuns, Kochi people: 1888–1893 Suppression of 1888–1893 Uprisings of Hazaras: Hazarajat: Afghan army under Abdur Rahman Khan: Thousands [5] [6] to 409,500 Hazaras according to a Hazara author [7 ...
Sher Muhammad Khan Hazara, a Sunni Hazara and chieftain of the Hazaras of Qala-e-Naw, Badghis, was a warlord who participated in the Sunni coalition that defended Herat in 1837. He was also one of those who defeated British forces around Qandahar and in the Maiwand desert during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842).
A bus carrying pilgrims to Taftan was stopped in Mastung near Quetta, after identifying Hazara passengers they were massacred leaving 26 dead. Three more were shot dead when they were on their way to collect the bodies. [5] [42] September 23: Five more Hazara were casualties in an attack when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a van. [43]
He is known for perpetrating the Hazara Genocide, but also uniting the country after years of internal fighting and negotiation of the Durand Line Agreement with British India. [ 4 ] Abdur Rahman Khan was the only son of Mohammad Afzal Khan , and grandson of Dost Mohammad Khan , founder of the Barakzai dynasty .
#StopHazaraGenocide is a social media campaign that aims to raise awareness and demand action against the persecution and violence faced by the Hazara ethnic group. [1] The campaign was initiated by Hazaras in response to a series of deadly attacks on the Hazara community, especially students and women, by the Taliban and other extremist groups.
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...